Bhattacharyya, Sambit (2011) Five Centuries of Economic Growth in India: The Institutions Perspective. In: Routledge Handbook of South Asian Economics. Routledge, pp. 32-43. ISBN 9780415553971

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Abstract

In this essay I present an analytical growth narrative of India since the sixteenth century. I argue that post independence economic performance is not entirely decoupled from the growth experiences in India during the Mughal and the colonial periods. Institutions perhaps play a key role in explaining economic performance over these periods. I present an analytical framework to understand how institutional change and other deep factors may have influenced economic performance in India during the pre-modern period, de-industrialisation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and post independence 'Hindu Growth' and boom. I argue that useful insights can be drawn by studying growth history of India in its entirety.

Item Type:	Book Section
Schools and Departments:	University of Sussex Business School > Economics
Depositing User:	Sambit Bhattacharyya
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2012 21:11
Last Modified:	16 Jul 2012 09:24
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/30095

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